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Jonathan is a math teacher in his forties from Hampshire. When he's not educating kids about polynomials and scalene triangles, he collects board games. A lot of board games. His collection is currently at around 1,300, with which he lines the walls of the games room in his house like a ludo version of the Library of Alexandria.When he was a teenager, he lived near one of the first specialist games shops in the UK. "That opened my eyes to a range of games beyond Monopoly and other traditional board games," says Jonathan. (Monopoly, he tells me, is almost universally hated in the board gaming community, as it is by all rational people). "There was a period in the early 2000s when a lot of interesting games had started appearing after the success of Settlers of Catan [the first game to show people the fraught joys of bilateral trade agreements]. I had a reasonable disposable income and I was buying a huge number of games."Trending on Motherboard: We Asked a Space Doctor How We'll Survive Deep Space Travel
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